Four years earlier, Kapacziewski was wounded by an enemy grenade Oct. 3, 2005 in Iraq during his fifth combat deployment with 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. In March 2006, doctors amputated his leg below the knee. Three years later, after additional surgeries, completing hundreds of hours of physical therapy, and completing the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program 2, Kapacziewski returned to 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment and deployed as a Ranger Squad Leader in 2009 to Afghanistan. After returning, he was promoted to Sgt. 1st Class and became a Ranger Platoon Sergeant.

Wow...excellent thread. Thought I'd share a couple of photos that I personally took.
The photo above was shot about September 1970 during my tour in Vietnam. Taken from the back of a M-113 APC during an engagement about 70 miles (100 KM) north of Tan San Nhut Airbase.

The above photo was shot during a visit to Bamberg, West Germany by MG George S. Patton III, Deputy Corp Commander of 8th Corp in December 1977.

My grandfather claimed to be the one with his hands on his hips in this photo on the left side just above the hatch. It does look like him... USS Honolulu CL-48 after a run-in with a torpedo. Yay asbestos lung.

Funny from last deployment:
We pulled into Singapore a couple of days before the Stennis "Battle" Group did. While their armada of targets was pulling in, we commenced a low pressure blow on all main ballast tanks. This is typically a daily evolution in which we use a pair of air pumps to blow low pressure air into the ballast tanks, thus forcing water out. While we do this many, many bubbles appear around the forward and aft ends of the ship, as depicted in this picture.

The SDO/DCPO decided to do this while all these ships were pulling in.

Not even kidding, we had people from five different ships running from all directions of the pier to tell us we were sinking.

Lol, silly skimmers.

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I know man, definitely brought a tear to my eye. I tried finding more info on it, but couldn't come up with anything. If anyone knows, please post.

I recall my Whiskey instructor at AIT showing us clips and that one popped up. Supposedly, this happened during the first few years of the war before tactics changed. Instead of running out in the open to save a downed comrade, we must neutralize the threat first, or as the picture shows, become a casualty yourself.

In this series of photographs from the Second Battle of Fallujah, a Marine and Corpsman from 1st Battalion 8th Marines attempt to recover a Marine wounded by a sniper; the sniper then shoots one of the would-be rescuers.

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